Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Cross-reference
Job 13:5 already urges silence as wisdom — here Job himself demands silence from his friends to speak.
Job 13:19 says if he keeps quiet he'll die—immediate context reinforcing why he must speak despite consequences.
Job 7:11 declares he will not restrain his mouth — the same resolve to speak despite suffering seen in Job 13:13.
In Job 7:16, Job cries 'let me alone'—a direct verbal parallel to his request here to be left alone to speak.
Job 10:1 says he will give free utterance to his complaint — identical determination to speak out as in Job 13:13.
In Job 21:3, Job similarly asks to be allowed to speak before being mocked—echoing his plea here for silence.
In Job 32:20, Elihu says he must speak to be refreshed—mirroring Job's urgent need to speak, though from a different speaker.